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The Decline of Small Talk and What We Are Losing Without It
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Small Talk in Britain and Why Brief Encounters Still Matter

Small talk is easy to underestimate because, by definition, very little appears to happen. A remark about the weather, a few words with...

Intergenerational Living and Why More British Families Are Moving Back Together
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Intergenerational Living in Britain: Support, Space and the Reality of Sharing a Home

Intergenerational living is often presented as either a return to an older family model or a response to housing costs. In practice, families...

Modern Masculinity and How British Men Are Redefining Themselves
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Modern Masculinity in Britain: More Than One Way to Be a Man

There has never been only one way to be a British man, even if popular culture has often pretended otherwise. The familiar images...

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Culture

The Light Opens in Durham With a Major Exhibition on Light

A new cultural venue opens in Durham on 22 August, bringing contemporary art, local history and a restored museum building back into public...

Culture

Terrane Turns Jewellery Into a Map of Place and Memory

Amid the noise of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a small jewellery exhibition in Stockbridge is asking visitors to look at landscape in a...

People

Small Talk in Britain and Why Brief Encounters Still Matter

Small talk is easy to underestimate because, by definition, very little appears to happen. A remark about the weather, a few words with...

Home

Community Gardens and the Shared Life Growing Between the Beds

Community gardens are easy to romanticise. A few raised beds, a shed and a line of beans can quickly become shorthand for neighbourliness,...

Style

Personal Style After 40: Dressing With More Freedom, Not More Rules

Style after 40 does not need a rescue plan. It also does not arrive with a universal set of rules about hemlines, colour,...

Food

Home Baking and the Everyday Pleasure of Making Something From Scratch

Home baking does not need to be described as a revival, a form of therapy or an antidote to modern life to be...